AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1340MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +90%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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